The visit
from the editor was a great success. He was well briefed, thanks to Dropbox,
and ready with a plan of action. It’s a pity he didn’t turn up ten years ago,
when my husband would have had a better chance of seeing it to
fruition. Publication is planned for 2015. It's a big project.
Religion
I am sorry
to keep yammering on about this. It is much on my mind.
We learned
yesterday that the Cardinal himself doesn’t know who is accusing him, nor what
“inappropriate acts” he is accused of. His accusers are priests of this diocese
so, as their bishop, he must know them – must know them now, not just from 30
years ago. Bizarre.
Anonymity. The sequence of events was this: The four priests lodged their complaint with
the Papal Nuncio about a month ago. In the normal course of events, it would have
been investigated quietly and thoroughly and we would have known nothing
until/unless the Cardinal was sacked.
Then the
Pope resigned, and the eyes of the world were on the Conclave. The four priests
decided that this was a good moment to talk to a Sunday newspaper. In exchange
for 30 pieces of silver? So it is they who have stripped the Cardinal of
anonymity, along with much else. And it is the newspaper which is protecting
their identities.
A small
linguistic point: on Sunday and Monday the BBC kept speaking of “inappropriate
acts with priests dating back to…” which might imply that hanky panky had been
going on ever since. The phrase in the Observer is “…stretching back to…” But
in fact the four are complaining about one unspecified inappropriate act per
priest, which all are said to have happened in the 1980’s. Yesterday the BBC
switched to that usage, “in the 1980’s”.
My comfort
is that this is a big story. Serious, skilled investigative reporters are
probably looking for those four priests even as we speak. The BBC, the
Telegraph, the Sunday Times, all might be interested. Maybe the Cardinal will
yet be vindicated, and the parish priest’s job in Dunbar
could still be his.
Knitting
I’m
knitting peacefully on. The news this morning is that the designer of the Relax
has found a mistake in the pattern. Mercifully, she includes the correction in
Japanese in her message to purchasers, and it is labelled in English (back neck
shaping, rows 17 &19) so I don’t have to print the whole thing again.
Thanks, as
always, for comments. I hadn’t pursued the seed stitch wrap at Purl Bee through to
its price. Wow! And I’d have to pay customs on top of that. I had been toying with
the idea of knitting a section every month or so and having it ready for next
Christmas, but I think not.
Jean,
ReplyDeleteI took a look at the pattern for the wrap, which is just seed stitch over 109 stitches for however many skeins. I'm guessing you might have enough skeins in stash to make one. Or at least most of them . . . or perhaps a different range of colors . . .